For more information on what was missed, visit the powers of 10 site.

«powers of ten» (1977) – charles and ray eames
© 2006 lucia eames dba eames office

While browsing around for more information on Saam Faramand’s work, I happened upon the new Scissor Sisters video. Created by the Barcelona creative collective, Canada, who are currently signed with the same production company as Saam (Partizan). It’s incredible.

With the holiday season, I am a bit behind on my feeds and missed the post on Motionographer.

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In the early weeks of January 2010 The XX teamed up with acclaimed music video director Saam Farahmand for a unique audio-visual collaboration. XX: A sculpture of the album saw Saam Creating a 3D physical interpretation of the XX’s album. Utilising film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units it gave visitors an opportunity to become totally immersed in the album in a whole new way.
[via thexx.info]

Download the iPhone app for free now from the iTunes Store.

Other interesting tidbits of internet information:
Interview with Saam Farahmand for Vice
Welcome to the Salon lists off more of Saam Farahmand’s work

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Peep it here.

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Let’s hope I’m not being too ambitious.

Currently code named collective consciousness, it is an api that will provide contextual emotional feedback based on information available on the internet.

The idea is inspired by works such as We Feel Fine, tweetfeel and others. I hope to build upon those in a more open manner so that as the technology changes, the api can adapt through the community. I’m also hoping that as we determine what types of data makes up a collective emotional state we can adapt the system to take these into account as well.

Also serving as inspiration is the Evri api, but it’s closed system doesn’t give me exactly what I have in mind.

From the development perspective, I’m currently debating between github and google code. I’m also debating signing onto the whole google hosted app engine…
I apparently have some catching up to do to find out where my niche community of developers are. I need to find out where those who are interested in working on this are hanging out online. I need to know what they are coding in and hopefully that will help me determine what the best technology stack may be.

Overall, I see the application taking on a plug-in type structure. The core of the application will be responsible for most of the data crunching. The plug-ins will be responsible for integrating the types of sources that the api will support, the output results (percentages, total list of data, etc) and the output format (xml, json, etc) for the api.
Examples of source plugins:
- weather
- popular news (CNN, NYT, FOX)
- comments from users on popular content
- music
- blogs
- comments on blogs
- status updates
- providing localized searches on criteria and sources

Outside projects that might be a good foundation to build into the app:
OpenAmplify

Please reach out to me if you are interested in helping, have some good advice on running an open source project or have insight to any of the issues I’ve been pondering above.

VIV Mag Motion Cover – iPad Demo from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

Watch the interactive demo:

VIV Mag Interactive Feature Spread – iPad Demo from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

Watch Behind the scenes features below:

VIV Mag Featurette: A Digital Magazine Motion Cover and Feature for the iPad from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

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37Signals has now come out with their second book, Rework. I had 3 people in my social stream talk about it in the same day; two of said it was life altering. After reading it I have to agree. Needless to say, I’ve also gone back and started reading Getting Real as well. Both books are well written on point.

Bottom line? Pick up a copy.

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The difference between Infographics vs Data Visualization is the difference between using small vs large datasets.

Wonderlic Test

In most systems you will never have less data – determine better ways of hiding it by finding out what is relevant.
Remember, audience is everything.

aquire -> parse -> filter -> mine -> represent -> refine -> interact

KISS = Keep it Simple Stupid

Visualizations create conversations.

No exploring – doesn’t get anything done. Get to the point – do it.

Acid Girls – Lightworks OFFICIAL VIDEO dir. Steven Ilous from Steven Ilous on Vimeo.

“Let them eat cake!”

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This is where you buy tickets.

This is where you go to see the show:

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This is a full listing of credits of the people who put it together, but only look at this after you go to the show.